T_353
The work as shown. Every value below comes from vae.db, the master database of the Crucible Year.
Recorded
- Date
- 2026.06.14, day 168
- Size
- 97 × 180 cm
- Paper
- S10, Red Star Mo She Imitation Antique Chu bark, Exhibition Edition
- Inks
- MB4, MB5, MB6
- Phase
- P3 The Floor Rises
- Shown on the site
- yes (V23 rating of 5.0 or higher)
- Early storage triage
- SA: save, archive (Peter's early system, since retired)
Measured · V23 (v23.8)
- V23 rating
- 7.3
- Form
- 2.2
- Tonal depth
- 2.6
- Layering
- 3
- Composition
- 2
- Material and surface
- 2
- Ink cover
- 93%
- Dark share
- 56%
- Tonal steps
- 4
- Flaws named by the reads
- other 9, water stain 1
Peter's own rating
- Rating
- 7
“There is always something that can be done better.”Peter Yuill · 2026.07.02
Older engine
- V10C
- 9
How the number was made
Read by the Visual Analysis Engine, version 23.8, on 2026.10.06: measured by code, then read 5 times by Claude Opus 5.5 against three reference paintings (R1 to R3), each read independent of the others. How the engine works.
Three views of one sheet.
Left, the photograph. Centre, the tone stretch the model is shown beside it: the darkest 45% of tones spread over the whole range, so flat black, banding and stains show. Right, every pixel as the measuring code classes it: cyan black ink, deep teal translucent grey, stone the palest ink, near black bare paper.
4 families of tone.
Every inked pixel's brightness in 64 bins, smoothed; each circled peak holds at least 4% of the ink. Life inside the black: 0.064 (under 0.045 reads as flat).
Five reads, agreeing on 3 of 5 qualities.
Each quality placed on its ladder by each read, and the mean the engine keeps. Where reads differ, they differ by one rung; close calls resolve down.
READ 1, IN ITS OWN WORDS
“A radial burst in the same family as R3, with legible stacked passes. It is heavier and more crowded, with blunter slab wedges and darks in the lower half that read flatter.”
Radial wedge strokes hold their walls and follow the arc, but lower-right and left dark wedges read as squared, slab-like blocks with blunt ends.
WEAKEST Bulky dark rectangular wedges, lower right
STRONGEST Upper-right radial fan strokes following the arc
Stretched view shows banding and grain in most wedges (modulation 0.064, four steps), but the large lower-centre and lower-right darks read flat at viewing distance.
WEAKEST Dense lower-centre dark mass near-uniform in colour view
STRONGEST Upper-right fan with banded, stepped greys
Many translucent radial passes stacked in readable order; overlaps step tone outward across the sheet, though the lower-centre stack thickens toward opacity.
WEAKEST Lower centre where stacked darks merge
STRONGEST Overlapping translucent wedges in upper right
Radial burst around a white centre gives clear direction, but 93% coverage crowds the frame; corners and lower half feel jammed and heavy.
WEAKEST Crowded, near-total coverage leaves little shaped paper
STRONGEST Central white circle anchoring the radial burst
Ink controlled with streaked dry-brush edges; small specks top right and a cloudy grey patch at mid-left sit away from principal darks.
WEAKEST Cloudy pale wash at left edge
STRONGEST Dry-brush streaks in vertical lower-centre gap
3 distinct places, 0 major.
Each read must name every flaw and where it is, in a ninth of the sheet. Here the reads named flaws in 3 distinct places, 10 mentions in all across 5 reads; the number in each ninth is how many times a flaw was named there. Reads agreeing on a place strengthen the evidence for one flaw; they do not multiply it.
Measured from the 16-bit master.
The previous engine (V22) measured this sheet's master file: 2 principal ink masses traced (cyan), 7 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 15 edge segments, 53% crisp, 47% soft or bloomed, 0% broken.
Tonal depth held at rung 1.
4 steps: not appliedMaterial held at rung 1. Mild waves in the unmounted paper are never a flaw.
none namedThe rating cannot exceed 4.
lowest 2.0A read that breaks the reply format is discarded.
5 of 5 validV23 rating 7.3.
Engine v23.8, 5 reads. Fixed arithmetic, the same for every painting; the constants were set on 24 randomly chosen paintings so the median sheet scores 5. The scale is relative to this archive, not to painting in general, and a difference of less than half a point between two paintings is noise.